Asia Trades With Itself More Than Any Region but Europe. It Has No Union to Show for It.
Close to 57% of Asia's trade never leaves Asia—interdependence second only to the EU, built by factories rather than treaty. What the number hides.
How Rich Is the Asia-Pacific? It Depends Which Number You Trust.
The center of gravity of the world economy by mass, and both the top and bottom of every human-development table by life. Three numbers that disagree.
The Junta's Countdown: Inside Myanmar's 100-Day Gambit
Why Myanmar's latest peace push looks like the last five, and what the July 31 deadline really buys the junta.
Stranded at the Border: How a Himalayan Flood Exposed Nepal's Chinese EV Boom
What one washed-out trade route says about Chinese EV expansion into small, price-sensitive markets.
Locked Out, Logged In: Australia's Under-16 Social Media Ban Meets Reality
Six months into the world's first national under-16 ban, enforcement is tightening, and so is the gap between law and behavior.
The Quiet Return: How Japan Is Rebuilding Its Leadership Across Asia
Japan isn't trying to outspend China's Belt and Road. It's building where Belt and Road generally doesn't.
From BTS to Semiconductors: How South Korea Turned Pop Culture into Economic Strategy
How Seoul built a policy pipeline underneath what looks, from outside, like spontaneous cultural success.
Where Is the World's Football Really Made?
The hand-stitched reputation that built Sialkot is now only half true, and that half-truth is the real story.
The Asian Factory Behind Every Goal
Tariffs built to pressure China are, for now, landing hardest on the countries that already left it.
The $100 Billion Road Across Asia
Connecting Asia by road was never primarily an engineering problem. The frontiers are what keep the map from matching the ground.
A Decade After Its Launch, Has China's AIIB Changed Development Finance?
The bank Washington tried to block now looks, on paper, like an ordinary multilateral lender.
The New Great Game of Development Finance
A lattice of banks that lend to each other's projects as often as they compete for them.
The Rise of Asia's Strategic Middle Powers
How Japan, Korea, Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore, Australia and India cooperate while avoiding bloc politics.
Beyond Silicon Valley: Asia's Quiet AI Revolution
The chips, the memory, and an increasing share of the capital all originate in the region.
The Shipping Routes That Built Modern Asia
What a Red Sea detour costs, quietly absorbed into the price of everything that moves through Asia's ports.
One Boat, Zero Backups: What HMS Anson's Perth Layover Reveals About AUKUS
Britain sent its available attack submarine to the other side of the world, at a moment its own parliament warned that was hollowing out the fleet at home.
162 and Falling: Japan's Weakest Yen in Forty Years Meets a Prime Minister Who Doesn't Want Higher Rates
Tokyo has spent a record $73.6 billion defending the yen. The currency fell through the defense anyway.
The $576 Billion Bet on a Rice-Farming Province: Inside Korea's Gwangju Chip Gambit
Samsung and SK Hynix are building four fabs in a region government data shows has the country's weakest supplier base.
Twenty-Eight Nanometers, Eleven Billion Dollars: India's Bet on Chips Nobody Else Wants to Make
India's last big semiconductor partner walked away mid-project. This one is betting on nodes a decade behind the frontier—deliberately.
Hong Kong Wants to Be Asia's Fort Knox: Can 250 Tonnes of Gold Get It There?
A government-owned clearing company with a Shanghai Gold Exchange executive on its board. Two prior attempts at this already failed.
13,000 Accounts, 860,000 Messages: Inside China's Alleged Campaign to Shape Taiwan's Local Elections
The interference has moved from swaying national elections to shaping who leads a mid-sized county, and now the opposition party too.
Twenty Olympic Pools a Day: Malaysia's AI Boom Runs Into Johor's Water Table
Data centers now draw nearly 200 times more water than ordinary industrial users. Johor told the biggest ones to wait.